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09:29, 4 May 2006

Dagestan released the man accused of an attempt on Amuchi Amutinov

Yesterday, on May 3, the Kizilyurt District Court released by its decision made under Article 79 of the CCRF on conditional early relief terms from the colony-settlement Gazimagomed Gairbekov, who was sentenced on August 9, 2005, by the Leninskiy District Court of the capital of Chechnya Grozny under Part 2 of Article 222 of the CCRF to 2.5 years of deprivation of freedom.

09:27, 3 May 2006

Azerbaijan is worse with media freedom and situation with journalists

A new journalists' organization named "Reporters' Freedom and Safety Institute" has been founded in Azerbaijan.

09:24, 3 May 2006

Dagestan has more victims of meeting fusillade

In Dagestan, another participant of mass disorders that took place on April 25 in the Dokuzparinskiy District of the Republic died, Tagir Tagirov, physician on duty of the Akhtyn district hospital, where those wounded were taken.

09:12, 3 May 2006

Human rights activists: people are tortured in illegal prisons in Chechnya

Illegal custodies in Chechnya, according to mass media and human rights activists, are located also in the territory of the Operations and Search Bureau of the North-Caucasian Operations Department of the Chief Administration of the MIA of Russia in the South Federal District ("OSB-2") in Grozny and Russian Military Base in Khankala, and in some other places where power units are deployed.

09:05, 3 May 2006

In Moscow, the record of dispersal of the meeting in Dagestan was demonstrated

Today, at the press conference in Moscow, human rights activists demonstrated video materials evidencing the shooting by the authorities of a peaceful demonstration in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25.

08:58, 3 May 2006

Parliament of Chechnya demands to close the isolation facility at the OSB-2

The deputies of the parliament of the Chechen Republic addressed the leadership of the MIA of Russia with a letter, in which they recommend to close the temporary isolator custody (TIC) at the Operations and Searching Bureau (OSB-2).

22:18, 2 May 2006

In Dagestan, the independent car park is still blocked

Information has appeared in Dagestan media that the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "RDR" resumes its work.

22:13, 2 May 2006

In Chechnya, European human rights activists were let to Tsentoroj

A delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures, headed by Mauro Palma, deputy chairman of the Committee, visited today the village of Tsentoroj - the family village of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen government.

21:13, 2 May 2006

Over 20 residents of the village of Tsentoroj kidnapped in Chechnya

According to the information obtained from local citizens, during several latest days in the village of Tsentoroj (Chechnya), over 20 persons were kidnapped by armed soldiers in camouflage suits and taken to unknown places.

21:09, 2 May 2006

Chechnya is visited by a delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures

In the first half of May 2, the president of Chechnya received in Grozny Mauro Palma, head of the delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures.

21:05, 2 May 2006

In Chechnya, human rights activists were not let to the family village of the Kadyrovs

Mauro Palma, head of the delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures, which is now in Chechnya, says that they were not let to Tsentoroj.

08:49, 2 May 2006

In Georgia, NGOs demand to hold an objective investigation into Girgvliani's murder

Representatives of the non-governmental organization "Institute for Equal Rights" (Georgia) have held today a peaceful protest action in Tbilisi Shardeni Street, where in January an incident took place entailing death of Sandro Girgvliani, 28 years old.

08:43, 2 May 2006

Azerbaijan has no political prisoners, representatives of the authorities think

The problem of political prisoners is outside the agenda of the authorities of Azerbaijan.

21:00, 1 May 2006

Meeting against despotism of power bodies held in Beslan

Beslan (North Ossetia) was a venue of a several thousand strong meeting against abuse of power by law enforcement bodies.

20:58, 29 April 2006

Azerbaijan denies any CIA prisons in its territory

Azerbaijan rejected the information about secret CIA prisons located in its territory.

20:54, 29 April 2006

In Chechnya, a local citizen was kidnapped and shot dead by unknown persons

In Chechnya, unknown persons have kidnapped and killed a local citizen, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic informed today.

20:48, 28 April 2006

"Nezavisimaya Gazeta": temporary residence centres (TRCs) of Chechnya are in better order that the streets of Grozny

Despite declarations of Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, that the women living in temporary residence centres (TRCs) "have forgotten what is housekeeping and house work, and would not take a brush," the tent camps are in better order that the central cities of Grozny, the "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" (Independent Newspaper).

15:50, 28 April 2006

In Ingushetia, one of the refugees detained in Ordzhonikidzevskaya settlement released

On April 25, in the course of operative-search actions in temporary residence centres of refugees in the settlement of Ordzhonikidzevskaya of the Sunzhenskiy District of Ingushetia, two forced migrants from the Chechen Republic - Bislan Maaev, born in 1981, and Aslambek Ahmedov, born in 1968, were detained.

15:45, 28 April 2006

Chernobyl liquidators of Rostov-on-Don think that money payouts instead of privileges is a government's deceit

Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident implications from Rostov-on-Don think that replacement of privileges for monetary payments is another deception of the government.

15:42, 28 April 2006

Sergey Enikolopov: closing refugees' camps in Chechnya is fair to some extent

Experts think that Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's instruction to liquidate Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) refugees may be fair to some extent.

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